Display holder for lamp shades



June 10, 1930. T. B. CHAMBERLAIN ET AL 1,762,761

DISPLAY HOLDER FOR LAMP SHADES Filed Nov. 12, 1928 Patented June 10, 1930 UNITED- sTATEs PATENT OFFICE THOMAS B. CHAMBERLAIN, F BOSTOH, AND CHARLES H. BAILEY, OF HINGHAM, MASSACHUSETTS DISPLAY HOLDER FOR LAMP SHADES Application filed November 12, 1928.

This invention relates to a display holder adapted to maintain a plurality of lamp shades simultaneously displayed in a vertical group or series. V

The object is to provide a holder adapted to permit the quick and convenient removal of either shade from the group, and with it a portion of the holder embodying the inven tion, said member constituting a handle whereby the removed shade may be manipulated during inspection by a customer, without necessity of touching any part of the shade, the holding hand grasping only the removed member of the holder, so that defacement of the shade by contactof the hands therewith may be avoided.

Of the accompanying drawings forming a part of this specification,

Figure 1 is a side view of a holder composed of a plurality of members each embodying the invention, assembled to constitute a pendant, the supporting arm hereinafter described being attached to a support, only a portion of which is shown.

Figure 2 shows partly in side elevation and partly in section, one of the members shown by Figure 1.

Figure 3 shows in perspective portions of the member shown by Figure 2, the portions so being separated from each other.

A Figure 4 shows in horizontal section a portion of a fixed post or column, and in plan, two supporting arms radiating therefrom.

Figure 5 shows in side elevation the post port-ions and arms shown by Figure 4.

Figure 6 is a section on line 6-6 of Fig ure 5.

Figure 7 is a section on line 7-7 of Figure 6.

Figure 8 shows in side elevation a portable standard and supporting arms radiating therefrom.

Figure 9 is a side view, showing one of the members removed from the pendant shown by Figure 1, and a shade supported by said member.

The same reference characters indicate the same parts in all of the figures.

In the drawings, 12 designates a substantially horizontal supporting arm, which may Serial No. 318,812.

be one of a series of arms radiating from a common support. Said support may be a fixed vertical post or column 13, or a portable standard 13 supported vertically on a floorby a base 14; (Figure 8), the arm 12 being supported at a predetermined distance above the floor.

The outer end of the supporting arm is provided with a supporting coupling part 16, which is, preferably an eye, as shown by Fig so ures 1,5 and 8.

A holder adapted to support a plurality of lamp shades may comprise a single supporting' coupling part 16 and a pendant composed of the hereinafter described members embodying the invention depending from said supporting part, in which case the part 16 may be attached to a wall 15, or if desired, to a ceiling or other overhead support. Preferably the holder includes a plurality of sup porting coupling parts and pendants, as indicated by Figures 4, 5 and 8.

The pendant is composed of a series of oblong members in which the invention is embodied. One of these members is shown by Figure 2, its preferred construction being described hereinafter. Each member is provided at one end with a coupling part 17, preferably a hook, and at its opposite end with a coupling part 18, preferably an eye. Between the ends of each member is a rest 19. adapted, to support the usual contracted. upper end portion of a lamp shade 20, said portio-n' being conventionally indicated at 21 (Figure 2) by dotted lines. The rest 19 is adapted to permit the lifting of theshade therefrom, there being no positive connection between the shade and the rest.

The coupling part 17 of the upper member is engaged with the supporting coupling part 16, the pendant hanging vertically from the latter.-

Each; shade-holding member includes two alined. arms 22 and 23, which are preferably slender rods. The arm 22 is reduced at one endto form a shank 24 which is screw-threaded, and a clamping shoulder 25, surrounding the base of the shank. The arm- 23 is provided with a tapped socket 26, adapted to engage the shank, and a clamping en-d face surrounding the mouth of the socket. The rest is preferably a sheet metal disk having a central orifice 27, receiving the shank 24. The rest may be reinforced by a Washer 28, bear. ing on the shoulder 25, and on one side of the disk, the washer and disk being clamped between the shoulder and the clamping surface of the arm 23.

The arms 22 and 23 are separable from each other and from the rest, so that different sized rests 19 may be used interchangeably to support shades of different sizes. There may be any desired number of the described holder members, and they are connected end to end by the coupling parts 17 and 18, to form a pendant of any length required to hold the desired number of lamp shades. The hook and eye form of the coupling parts enables any pendant member and the shade thereon, to be quickly and conveniently separated from the others. Thelower member and shade may be removed, by simply unhooking the member from theneXt higher member. If the removal of a higher member and shade is desired, the member is unhooked from those below and above it, and after really from the arms and spaced from the ends thereof so that either arm may be grasped to manipulate the holder While a shade is supported by the rest, means being provided for detachably securing the rest to the arms, so that different rests adapted to support lamp shades of diflerent sizes may be used interchangeably.

3. lamp-shade holder constituting a pendant section and comprising two alined arms, a hook at the outer end of one arm,

and an eye at the outer end of the other arm,

moval, the gap is closed by hooking together I the members below and above the gap.

It will be seen, particularly by Figure 9, that the removal of any shade involves the removal of the pendant member by which it;

is supported, and that the arm 23 of the member projects upwardly from the shade While the other arm 22 projects downwardly'into the shade, either arm constituting a handle by which the shade may be controlled, or held in different positions while being inspected,

so that it is not necessary, for a salesman or a customer to touch the shade, with the risk I of soiling it. 1

When the holder includes a plurality of supporting arms 12 radiating from a fixed post or column 13, the innerends of the arms may be attached to an ornamental band 220 embracing the post, as indicated by Figures 4, 5, 6 and 7, the band preferably including nut members 230, into which the threaded inner ends of the arms 12 are secured. The

main portion of the band may be of sheet metal and formed to conceal the nut members.

We claim: 1. A lamp-shade holder constituting a pendant section and comprisingtwo alined arms, a hook at the outer end of one arm, and

an eye at the outer end of the other arm, and a shade rest secured to and projecting laterally from the arms and spaced from the ends thereof so that either arm may be grasped to manipulate the holder while a shade is supportedby the rest.

2. A lamp-shade holder constituting a pendant section and comprising two alined arms, a hook at the outer end of one arm, and an eye at the outer end of the other arm, and

7 a shade rest secured to and projecting-later- 

